Designing Communal Spaces in Residential Complexes

Living in the residential complex was introduced as a new model of human settlement after the publication of the principles of modernism but this new model quickly showed its weaknesses and a wave of criticism began. Once the inefficiency of this space was acknowledged, architects seriously considered the necessity of revising them. This study was performed among a number of residential complexes to seek the relation between the users of these spaces and communal areas. Based in this relation, this was done by examining the relation between form and users behavior from an anthropological and sociological perspective of urban architecture.